Spaceship in Spaceship Earth

[Figments Friend]

The original King Palms looked the best, in my opinion.

The entrance was glorious in the early 1980s….before the dark times.

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[JoeCamel]

Not my photo, but the 1999 trees that replaced the tall palm trees from opening day are gone and replaced with smaller palm trees.

Go sprinkle some palm fert around their bases - daily......

 

[HMF]

The entrance was glorious in the early 1980s….before the dark times.

I would argue that the restoration of the original entrance was the only positive development out of the entire EPCOT re-imagining. I don't really count Test Track 3.0 because we know GM put up the money for that.

 

[Bocabear]

I would argue that the restoration of the original entrance was the only positive development out of the entire EPCOT re-imagining. I don't really count Test Track 3.0 because we know GM put up the money for that.

I would have to agree....well the second thing was they got rid of the paint colors that plagued the Communicore plaza and got them to look at the original architecture again...though the final product was blander than I hoped (mostly just Creations)...

 

[Figments Friend]

I would argue that the restoration of the original entrance was the only positive development out of the entire EPCOT re-imagining. I don't really count Test Track 3.0 because we know GM put up the money for that.

Yes, I do agree that the current entrance is quite nice and much better then the atrocious ‘gravestones’ LaL monolith version.
Yeesh that was such a awful period…

However, those tall palm tree from the days of yore are still missed flanking SSE and added a classy visual touch.
The flagpoles are just not the same to my eyes.

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[Gringrinngghost]

"SPACESHIP EARTH CAR NARRATION CART PRINTING MASTER COPY #1 MASTER OBSOLETE 7-14-82"

 

[marni1971]

Sigh

 

[Dragonman]

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Glad to see they still exist and are being preserved. I’d love to finally hear the Vic Perrin narration in HQ thought I doubt they’ll release it publicly.

 

[aladdin2007]

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that first video is amazing, talk about a wealth of material and collection unlike any other, and great to see all of it still being implemented today whether old or new or being transferred etc...... I sighed when they showed clips of the original small world with the fountains and lights, I really wish they would think about going back to something like that, its so ick now.........anyway is all of the sound archives in California? The Epcot isle alone I could spend hours in just reading the various info on those reels and tapes. It would be so nice if they would make another collectors box set again of some of this music on cd or what not, some of us, no many of us I think, still love to collect the physical.

 

[HMFan999]

I wonder if Disney has any idea how much $$$ they're just sitting on when it comes to the archives. I'd drop big bucks to be a member of a real proper museum where I could actually see / hear the stuff they just have sitting in warehouses collecting dust. It seem like it would be a no-brainier to open a museum somewhere on Disney World property.

 

[Splash4eva]

I wonder if Disney has any idea how much $$$ they're just sitting on when it comes to the archives. I'd drop big bucks to be a member of a real proper museum where I could actually see / hear the stuff they just have sitting in warehouses collecting dust. It seem like it would be a no-brainier to open a museum somewhere on Disney World property.

If there was ever something worth investing in thus would be it. Imo right in DS charge for it. People will flock to it imo and also will bring in a ton of foot traffic in that area as well.

 

[HMF]

I wonder if Disney has any idea how much $$$ they're just sitting on when it comes to the archives. I'd drop big bucks to be a member of a real proper museum where I could actually see / hear the stuff they just have sitting in warehouses collecting dust. It seem like it would be a no-brainier to open a museum somewhere on Disney World property.

I think the reason is the archives has SO MUCH good stuff in there then people will be more likely see that the stuff they used to do is better than the crap they put out these days and they obviously can't have that.

 

[steve2wdw]

Wow, this thread is still active! A few of my posts (from May 2006) are on page one. It's been years since I've visited these forums (just jumped on a Zootopia thread last week). This thread in particular, ended up introducing me to someone who is still to this day, a dear friend. Just recently while at WDW, I ended up meeting someone else associated with WDWMagic and that person is also connected with that aforementioned friend. Maybe I spend some time back here again!